Topics
Follow State & Power by the mechanism of power, not only by geography. These topics connect reporting, analysis and explainers across countries and institutions.
Elections
How votes become governing authority, and where electoral mandates meet constitutional constraints.
Institutions
The formal and informal institutions that allocate, constrain and legitimise political power.
Security
Military power, alliances, deterrence, conflict and the institutions that decide when force can be used.
Political Economy
How states use budgets, trade, energy, finance and industrial policy to create or constrain power.
Technology & Power
AI, platforms, infrastructure and the growing political consequences of technological control.
Courts & Law
Constitutions, courts, legislation and the legal architecture that determines what political actors can do.
State Capacity
Whether governments can convert promises, money and legal authority into outcomes in the real world.